An immunogenic cell death-related gene expression signature in predicting prognosis of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.

Background: Immunogenic cell death (ICD) has been identified as regulated cell death, which is sufficient to activate the adaptive immune response. This study aimed to research ICD-related genes and create a gene model to predict pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PAAD) patients' prognosis.

Methods: The RNA sequencing and clinical data were downloaded from the TGCA and GEO databases.

Diverse Motion In-betweening from Sparse Keyframes with Dual Posture Stitching.

In-betweening is a technique for generating transitions given start and target character states. The majority of existing works require multiple (often ≥ 10) frames as input, which are not always available. In addition, they produce results that lack diversity, which may not fulfill artists' requirements.

Universal method using a pre-deformed reference subset to eliminate the interpolation bias in digital image correlation.

The high measurement accuracy of the digital image correlation (DIC) method is derived from the sub-pixel registration algorithm, which interpolates the intensities at the sub-pixel position in the image. The displacement error caused by the interpolation is a systematic bias in the DIC method, known as the sinusoidal bias in the sub-pixel translation experiment. Although the interpolation bias has been well researched, there is a lack of a universal method to eliminate interpolation bias.

Enhanced Catalytic Performance of Ag NP/0.95AgNbO-0.05LiTaO Heterojunction from the Combination of Surface Plasma Resonance Effect and Piezoelectric Effect Using Facile Mechanical Milling.

An internal built electric field can suppress the recombination of electron-hole pairs and distinctly enhance the catalytic activity of a photocatalyst. Novel t-Ag/0.95AgNbO-0.

Electrochemical Fe-catalysed radical cyclization for the synthesis of oxindoles.

We report an efficient and sustainable electrocatalytic approach for the synthesis of 3,3-disubstituted 2-oxindoles bearing ester groups from readily accessible -arylacrylamides and carbazates. The reaction proceeds through an electrochemical iron-catalyzed radical addition/cyclization sequence with a commercially available iron catalyst and carbazates as alkoxycarbonyl radical precursors. This mild and operationally simple method transforms a wide range of structurally diverse -arylacrylamides into oxindole derivatives in good yields and can be smoothly scaled up for the preparation of synthetically valuable oxindoles that are key intermediates for the synthesis of natural products.